History

Editor’s Choice: Anne Applebaum – The Russian Empire Must Die

“The best way that outsiders can help Russia change is to ensure that Ukraine takes back Ukrainian territory and defeats the empire, renowned author …
Bohdan Nahaylo

Everything You Need to Know About Holodomor Remembrance Day

Despite being ravaged by war and Russian aggression, the people of Ukraine will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor genocide this year …
Ramsha Afridi

Terlezki Award and Archive Auctioned to Help Ukrainian Wartime Charity

Two daughters of the late Stefan Terlezki, a World War II refugee who became the first Ukrainian to hold political office as a Member of the British …
Tony Leliw

New Plaque Honors Wales’ Gareth Jones

The great nephew of Gareth Jones, the Welsh investigative journalist, who was one of the first to report on the 1932-33 man-made, artificial famine in …
Tony Leliw

Authentic Histories: Francesco Locatelli and His “Letters from Muscovy”

Let me start with a few quotes from “Letters from Muscovy,” a little-known book by a little-known author, which appeared on the European book market …
Yuriy Shapoval

British Military Historian on Lessons of 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

60 years ago this month the world held its breath as what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded. The Scottish weekly newspaper the Sunday …
Bohdan Nahaylo

Kyiv’s Cultural Sites Damaged by Missiles

The Ukrainian Center for Museum Development reported that Russia’s massive missile strike on Oct.10 caused serious damage to cultural and academic …
Kyiv Post

Ivan Franko – Ukraine’s Revolutionary European

One of the greatest modern Ukrainians, poet, writer and political activist, Ivan Franko, was born on Aug. 27, 1856. He was an exemplary European …
Bohdan Nahaylo

68 Years Ago Today – First Radio Liberty Broadcast to Ukraine

On August 16, the Ukrainian Service of the U.S. financed Radio Liberation (later Radio Liberty) made its first broadcast from Munich to Soviet-ruled …
Kyiv Post

Authentic Histories: How Soviet Legislation Was Changed to Kill One Defiant Ukrainian

“Why is loving Ukraine a guilt? Why am I guilty of being inspired by the idea of Ukrainian independence… so much so that I was ready to stand up …
Yuriy Shapoval

Authentic Histories: Symbol of Ukrainian Immortality – Olena Teliha

The heroine of my story has been described by one of her contemporaries as “the greatest female figure in Ukrainian literature after Lesia Ukrainka.” …
Yuri Shapoval

Authentic Histories: University Walls Contain Tragic Soviet-era Secrets

“The Prison on Striyska Street” is a short documentary produced by the Kyiv-based DocNoteFilms studios. It premiered on state-owned Suspilne regional …
Oleh Chornyy

Authentic Stories: A Pocket, Ukraine, and Yevhen Chykalenko

You may ask me why I gave such an odd title to this particular piece. The answer is very simple: the protagonist of my story, a cultured, well-to-do …
Yuriy Shapoval

Getting Along With The Adversary: Brezhnev and Kissinger

Authentic Histories Well, one wise man was right when he said the following: it is the voice used to say words rather than the words themselves that …
Yuri Shapoval

The Forgotten Holocaust: The Massacre of Odesa’s Jews

From the Editors The UN has designated Jan.  27 — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — as International Holocaust Remembrance …
Ugo Poletti

Authentic Histories

Today we are delighted to begin a new regular feature – Authentic Histories – columns and short feature stories, on historical themes by one of …
Yuri Shapoval

From the Secret Pages of History: CIA Cold War Radio Nacional de España Broadcasts to Ukraine

The origins of CIA and Radio Nacional de España (RNE) Ukrainian broadcasts can be traced to March 1956: there were discussions between ZP/UHVR …
Richard H. Cummings

From the Secret Pages of History : Origins of the CIA Clandestine Radio Station Nova Ukraina, 1955-1959 (II) 

Moving from the concept of a clandestine radio to the actual beginning of broadcasting to Ukraine was a relatively long and drawn-out affair. The CIA …
Richard H. Cummings
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